Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America's Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment

by Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes

In Cowed, globally recognized environmentalists Denis and Gail Boyer Hayes offer a revealing analysis of how our beneficial, centuries-old relationship with bovines has evolved into one that now endangers us.

Long ago, cows provided food and labor to settlers taming the wild frontier and helped the loggers, ranchers, and farmers who shaped the country's landscape. Our society is built on the backs of bovines who indelibly stamped our culture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239942
• ISBN13: 9780393239942
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"